Improvement in combined collar and toy money box



E. E. MACK & F. COOK.

coMBINED COLLAR AND TOY MONEY-Box.

No. 190,504. l Patented May 8,1877.

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UNITED ED ELISHA MACK AND FREDRICK COOK, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK; SAID COOKASSIGNOR TO SAID MACK.

I IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED COLLAR AND TOV MONEY BOX.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,504, dated May 8,1877; application led February 12, 1877.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that we, ED ELISHA MACK andFREDRIGK COOK, both of the city and county of Albany, State of New York,have invented certain Improvements in Packing-Boxes for Collars andCuffs, and like small articles, which improvements are `fully set forthin the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of a box having theimprovements in this invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of thesame in the transverse. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cover, with itsadjunctive locking devices; and Fig. 4 is a horizontal view taken atlines No. 1 in Figs. 1 and 2.

The object of our invention is to furnish a combination of devices bywhich a packingbox for collars, cuffs, &c., in store or transit,

may be readily converted, when emptied of its contents by the consumer,into a moneybank or money-box, with its cover locked in a concealedmanner, and without liability of warping or splitting.

In the drawings, A represents the body ofthe box, which is made of wood,of any desirable form, either polygon, square, or round, as may beselected. B is the cover, made also wood, and composed of two pieces, aand b, consisting of two panels, so arranged in relation to each otherthat their direction of grain will be in transverse directions, orrunning across each other, as shown in Fig. 8. The said transversely-arranged pieces are cemented together by glue, or its known equivalent,or may be secured by both cement and nails, or screws. The said coverthus formed has the piece a, with an extension in all directions, and aform of margin or edge that will fit the inner periphery of the body Aof the box, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. The piece bis made with anextension in all directions, and a form of margin or edge that willproject out to the plane of the outer surface of the sides of the bodyof the box, or past the same, as shown. Made in the said cover is thenarrow oblong slot c, made vertically through both pieces ot the cover,with a length equal to about the diameter of a silver half-dollar, and awidth about equal to the thickness of said piece, so as to admit of aready passage of a piece oi' coin through the same.

This box, with its cover, is provided with concealed devices forsecuring the two, parts together, and may consist of the levers O2 C2,provided With spurs d d, and pivoted to the lower side ofthe cover insuch a manner that when the said levers are in position of full lines,Fig. 3, the covermay be readily removed, and when turned to position offull lines in Fig. 4, the said spurs may be thrown into recess a2, madein the sides of the box, as shown, to hold the cover securely with thebody ofthe box; or the fastening device may consist of the bar D,provided with spur d', adapted to enter recess x', made in a side of thebody of the box when the said bar is slid forward.

When the said sliding bar is employed, We would prefer to so place itthat its longitudinal movement may bein direction ofthe slot c, andwould provide, with the said bar, the lip c, rising up in the said slot,to operate as aconvenient piece to engage with some instrument formoving the said bar in either direction, as-may be required. Though twosuch devices may be employed, yet we would prefer to employ one suchdevice, with a dowel-pin, z, entering the opposite side of the box, asshown in Fig. 4; or the fastening device may consist of simple pins s s,passing through both the opposite sides of the box, and into the piece aof the cover B, asshown in Fig. 4.

When the box is to be used as a packingbox, it is intended that eitherof the fastening devices selected to be employed is to be out ofengagement with the body of the box, that the cover may be readilyremoved; but after the concealed fastenings of the cover may be operatedby an instrument through an opening made specially for that purpose inany selected side, or in the bottom, and be of smaller size, and otherform than that shown, that will permit an instrument to operate withsaid fastenings; and it is also apparent that it is not absolutelynecessary that the slot c should be located in the cover, as it may belocated in one ofthe sides or bottom, and secure the same results byadapting the packing-box, When emptied of its collars or othermerchantable articles,'to serve the purpose of a toy savings-bank, andthat the abovementioned modifications Would require only the exercise ofmechanical skill and workmanship, and not inventive ingenuity.

It may be readily seen that other simple and inexpensive devices forsecuring in aconcealed manner the cover to the box may be employedWithout departing from the spirit of this invention. It may also bereadily seen that by these improvements a substantial and strong box maybe produced which may be employed to serve useful purposes in ahousehold Where there are children, after the box has served all thepurposes of an original packing-box.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

1. The combination, with the body A of a packing-box, of the cover B,provided with concealed fastenings adapted to secure said cover inplace, and an opening, c, adapted to admit an instrument to saidfasteuings, inthe manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the body A of a packing-box, and a coversecured to said body lby concealed fastenings, of the slot c, adapted toadmit the passage of coin, and all operating, when desired, to convertthe box into a toy savings-bank, as andffor the purpose set forth.

ED' ELISHA MACK. FREDRICK COOK.`

Witnesses: i

LEWIS T. NEWELL, ALEX. SELKIRK.

